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What Do You See?

Team members:

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Please write the exact title of this photograph on the line below and in your journal. Note: Do not use the URL to reference photographs from American Memory. The URLs are only temporary addresses.

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On a separate piece of paper or using the back of this page, discuss the following questions as a team and create answers.

  1. Multidimensional photographs have people and technology.
    It this a multi-dimensional photograph?


  2. What are the items in the photograph?

  3. What are these items used for?

  4. What evidence from the picture did you use to draw your conclusions about the use of these items?

  5. What is unusual about this photograph?

  6. Is there a person in the photograph?
    How is the person (people) dressed?
    Does this allow you to draw conclusions about the person (people)?
    If so, what do you conclude?

  7. What prior knowledge did you use to make this conclusion?

  8. Is there a structure in the photo?
    What is it made of?

  9. Why use this material?

  10. What evidence from the picture did you use to draw your conclusion?

  11. Do your best to identify the following elements:
    • season of the year
    • time of day
    • part of the country the photo was taken in
    • mood of the people appearing in the photo

  12. What evidence from the photo did you use to draw your conclusions?

  13. What do you think the purpose of this photo is?

  14. Why do you think the photographer chose this particular point of view for the photo?

 

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